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P4B266 BIOS failure
I have just flashed the BIOS on my spare (thankfully) P4B266 based computer.
Now when it reboots, it displays the Video Card type, beeps once, then leaves me with a flashing curser in the top left corner of the monitor, and stays there mocking me. The hard drive activity light quits after about 5-10 seconds as well. Delete key does not work, nothing works. Will not boot to floppy or CDROM. I have tried to reset the BIOS by disconecting the power, removed the battery and shorted the solder points, but no luck Is she cooked, or is there still hope? Any help, links to web sites appreciated. Thanks. Jim |
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=|[ Jim in Canada's ]|= wrote:
I have just flashed the BIOS on my spare (thankfully) P4B266 based computer. Now when it reboots, it displays the Video Card type, beeps once, then leaves me with a flashing curser in the top left corner of the monitor, and stays there mocking me. The hard drive activity light quits after about 5-10 seconds as well. Delete key does not work, nothing works. Will not boot to floppy or CDROM. I have tried to reset the BIOS by disconecting the power, removed the battery and shorted the solder points, but no luck Is she cooked, or is there still hope? Any help, links to web sites appreciated. Thanks. Jim When you flash bios, its settings can revert to defaults, you have to go back in and update the settings to reflect your particular setup - processor/mem speeds, graphic card mode, boot device..etc Have you done that ? -- ' gathering moss, andy |
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"Creeping Stone" wrote in message ... =|[ Jim in Canada's ]|= wrote: I have just flashed the BIOS on my spare (thankfully) P4B266 based computer. Now when it reboots, it displays the Video Card type, beeps once, then leaves me with a flashing curser in the top left corner of the monitor, and stays there mocking me. The hard drive activity light quits after about 5-10 seconds as well. Delete key does not work, nothing works. Will not boot to floppy or CDROM. I have tried to reset the BIOS by disconecting the power, removed the battery and shorted the solder points, but no luck Is she cooked, or is there still hope? Any help, links to web sites appreciated. Thanks. Jim When you flash bios, its settings can revert to defaults, you have to go back in and update the settings to reflect your particular setup - processor/mem speeds, graphic card mode, boot device..etc Have you done that ? -- ' gathering moss, andy Flashed Bios with Asus's windows version Update Utility (not AFlash) to BIOS 1011.003 It then said to reboot computer. I rebooted. Saw the Nvidia Ti4200 video card boot screen, but then that's it. Stops cold... There seems to be no way to get into the BIOS to make the settings required. Like I said, it does not get that far into the boot process. Delete does not work (which used too). It just sits there with a black screen and a flashing curser in the top left corner of the computer monitor. All fans are working, and all LEDS are lit on the motherboard. P4B266 P41.8 processor (not overclocked) 1 gig RAM 80gig WD Hard Drive PNY Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 64 MB video card |
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"Jim in Canada" skrev i en meddelelse news:E5yXb.504059$ts4.390156@pd7tw3no... Flashed Bios with Asus's windows version Update Utility (not AFlash) to BIOS 1011.003 It then said to reboot computer. I rebooted. Saw the Nvidia Ti4200 video card boot screen, but then that's it. Stops cold... There seems to be no way to get into the BIOS to make the settings required. Like I said, it does not get that far into the boot process. Delete does not work (which used too). It just sits there with a black screen and a flashing curser in the top left corner of the computer monitor. All fans are working, and all LEDS are lit on the motherboard. P4B266 P41.8 processor (not overclocked) 1 gig RAM 80gig WD Hard Drive PNY Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 64 MB video card Hi Jim, flash it back to 1010 or your old bios then... where did you read, that the 1011 bios is good for the P4B266??? And you are def. in jumperfree mode, arent you ? |
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In article E5yXb.504059$ts4.390156@pd7tw3no, "Jim in Canada"
wrote: "Creeping Stone" wrote in message ... =|[ Jim in Canada's ]|= wrote: I have just flashed the BIOS on my spare (thankfully) P4B266 based computer. Now when it reboots, it displays the Video Card type, beeps once, then leaves me with a flashing curser in the top left corner of the monitor, and stays there mocking me. The hard drive activity light quits after about 5-10 seconds as well. Delete key does not work, nothing works. Will not boot to floppy or CDROM. I have tried to reset the BIOS by disconecting the power, removed the battery and shorted the solder points, but no luck Is she cooked, or is there still hope? Any help, links to web sites appreciated. Thanks. Jim When you flash bios, its settings can revert to defaults, you have to go back in and update the settings to reflect your particular setup - processor/mem speeds, graphic card mode, boot device..etc Have you done that ? -- ' gathering moss, andy Flashed Bios with Asus's windows version Update Utility (not AFlash) to BIOS 1011.003 It then said to reboot computer. I rebooted. Saw the Nvidia Ti4200 video card boot screen, but then that's it. Stops cold... There seems to be no way to get into the BIOS to make the settings required. Like I said, it does not get that far into the boot process. Delete does not work (which used too). It just sits there with a black screen and a flashing curser in the top left corner of the computer monitor. All fans are working, and all LEDS are lit on the motherboard. P4B266 P41.8 processor (not overclocked) 1 gig RAM 80gig WD Hard Drive PNY Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 64 MB video card Maybe your Boot Block is still intact ? The flashing cursor sounds a bit promising... The BIOS consists of two parts, the Boot Block and the rest of the chip. The Boot Block is supposed to contain enough basic services, to boot from a floppy. One of the downsides, is the Boot Block may not be able to initialize the screen (I mention this because there is a lot of talk about the recover process being "blind"). First thing to try: 1) Prepare an MSDOS boot disk. Put a copy of AFLASH on it and the BIOS file. If you can boot to the dos prompt, use AFLASH to update the flash chip. This assumes the video is initialized and you can see and read the prompts on the screen. 2) If the Boot Block is intact, it may not be able to init the video. To flash the BIOS, the suggestions in groups.google.com are to prepare an AUTOEXEC.BAT file, with the name of the flash program and a series of command line switches. While this might work for some other flasher programs, the claim is that AFLASH doesn't have the necessary command line switches. http://www.imidz.sk/rainbow/uniflash.txt However, I just downloaded aflash221 from the Asus site, and with a hex editor, I can see some options like: ASUS ACPI BIOSFLASH MEMORY WRITER V2.21%s Copyright (C) 1994-2002, ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. USAGE: AFLASH [Options] [ROMFile] /AUTO ROMFile Automated update BIOS without Boot Block and ESCD /BOOT Update BIOS including Boot Block and ESCD and so on. So, it may be possible to use the /AUTO switch in a single line AUTOEXEC.BAT file, to flash the BIOS. Try executing AFLASH on another computer and try /? as a command line option, to get the other options printed out. (After all, you can only do so much with a hex editor :-) 3) If that doesn't work, you could try Uniflash using the same method. Check the list of supported chipsets and give it a shot anyway, because at this point, there is probably nothing to lose. 4) If the Boot Block is gone (most likely), it is time to buy another flash chip from www.badflash.com or similar. If you do a lot of BIOS flashing on a board, then a BIOS Savior is an excellent investment. See ioss.com.tw for details. Note that the motherboard and original flash have to be in working order, in order to install a BIOS Savior, so you cannot use it to revive a dead board, unless the vendor of the BIOS Savior flashes the EEPROM on the Savior before shipping it to you. If you cannot manage to find a floppy boot disk, you might be able to make one with some files from bootdisk.com . BTW: The comment from "Clock n Roll" makes me wonder whether switching from JumperFree to Jumper Mode or vice versa would make a difference. Stranger things have happened. HTH, Paul |
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"Paul" wrote in message ... In article E5yXb.504059$ts4.390156@pd7tw3no, "Jim in Canada" wrote: "Creeping Stone" wrote in message ... =|[ Jim in Canada's ]|= wrote: I have just flashed the BIOS on my spare (thankfully) P4B266 based computer. Now when it reboots, it displays the Video Card type, beeps once, then leaves me with a flashing curser in the top left corner of the monitor, and stays there mocking me. The hard drive activity light quits after about 5-10 seconds as well. Delete key does not work, nothing works. Will not boot to floppy or CDROM. I have tried to reset the BIOS by disconecting the power, removed the battery and shorted the solder points, but no luck Is she cooked, or is there still hope? Any help, links to web sites appreciated. Thanks. Jim When you flash bios, its settings can revert to defaults, you have to go back in and update the settings to reflect your particular setup - processor/mem speeds, graphic card mode, boot device..etc Have you done that ? -- ' gathering moss, andy Flashed Bios with Asus's windows version Update Utility (not AFlash) to BIOS 1011.003 It then said to reboot computer. I rebooted. Saw the Nvidia Ti4200 video card boot screen, but then that's it. Stops cold... There seems to be no way to get into the BIOS to make the settings required. Like I said, it does not get that far into the boot process. Delete does not work (which used too). It just sits there with a black screen and a flashing curser in the top left corner of the computer monitor. All fans are working, and all LEDS are lit on the motherboard. P4B266 P41.8 processor (not overclocked) 1 gig RAM 80gig WD Hard Drive PNY Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 64 MB video card Maybe your Boot Block is still intact ? The flashing cursor sounds a bit promising... The BIOS consists of two parts, the Boot Block and the rest of the chip. The Boot Block is supposed to contain enough basic services, to boot from a floppy. One of the downsides, is the Boot Block may not be able to initialize the screen (I mention this because there is a lot of talk about the recover process being "blind"). First thing to try: 1) Prepare an MSDOS boot disk. Put a copy of AFLASH on it and the BIOS file. If you can boot to the dos prompt, use AFLASH to update the flash chip. This assumes the video is initialized and you can see and read the prompts on the screen. 2) If the Boot Block is intact, it may not be able to init the video. To flash the BIOS, the suggestions in groups.google.com are to prepare an AUTOEXEC.BAT file, with the name of the flash program and a series of command line switches. While this might work for some other flasher programs, the claim is that AFLASH doesn't have the necessary command line switches. http://www.imidz.sk/rainbow/uniflash.txt However, I just downloaded aflash221 from the Asus site, and with a hex editor, I can see some options like: ASUS ACPI BIOSFLASH MEMORY WRITER V2.21%s Copyright (C) 1994-2002, ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. USAGE: AFLASH [Options] [ROMFile] /AUTO ROMFile Automated update BIOS without Boot Block and ESCD /BOOT Update BIOS including Boot Block and ESCD and so on. So, it may be possible to use the /AUTO switch in a single line AUTOEXEC.BAT file, to flash the BIOS. Try executing AFLASH on another computer and try /? as a command line option, to get the other options printed out. (After all, you can only do so much with a hex editor :-) 3) If that doesn't work, you could try Uniflash using the same method. Check the list of supported chipsets and give it a shot anyway, because at this point, there is probably nothing to lose. 4) If the Boot Block is gone (most likely), it is time to buy another flash chip from www.badflash.com or similar. If you do a lot of BIOS flashing on a board, then a BIOS Savior is an excellent investment. See ioss.com.tw for details. Note that the motherboard and original flash have to be in working order, in order to install a BIOS Savior, so you cannot use it to revive a dead board, unless the vendor of the BIOS Savior flashes the EEPROM on the Savior before shipping it to you. If you cannot manage to find a floppy boot disk, you might be able to make one with some files from bootdisk.com . BTW: The comment from "Clock n Roll" makes me wonder whether switching from JumperFree to Jumper Mode or vice versa would make a difference. Stranger things have happened. HTH, Paul Thanks for all the tips Paul. I read also about the "boot block" part of the bios and how it was only able to show video from an ISA video card. Also another read has mentioned that my floppy should be hooked up to a multi media controller card. I guess that means it can either control HD's, CDRoms, and floppy drives. I do have a fresh boot disk with AFLASH and a fresh download of the P4B266 BIOS. Will there be any activity light on the floppy, because I have left it in there for over an hour and nothing. Why I went with the 1011 Beta? I read someplace that it supposedly enables the board to run 333Mhz DDR's. At least that is what the zip file looks like (*DDR333) I am in Jumperfree mode, so maybe I'll look at the manual and see what settings I will require for my system. Holly cow......ISA video cards, jumper switches.....next thing I know I'll be digging out the old 386SX out of the attic For ~$189 CDN the P4P800 Deluxe-UAY is starting to look good. Jim |
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In article O0DXb.506900$ts4.268355@pd7tw3no, "Jim in Canada"
wrote: "Paul" wrote in message ... In article E5yXb.504059$ts4.390156@pd7tw3no, "Jim in Canada" wrote: "Creeping Stone" wrote in message ... =|[ Jim in Canada's ]|= wrote: I have just flashed the BIOS on my spare (thankfully) P4B266 based computer. Now when it reboots, it displays the Video Card type, beeps once, then leaves me with a flashing curser in the top left corner of the monitor, and stays there mocking me. The hard drive activity light quits after about 5-10 seconds as well. Delete key does not work, nothing works. Will not boot to floppy or CDROM. I have tried to reset the BIOS by disconecting the power, removed the battery and shorted the solder points, but no luck Is she cooked, or is there still hope? Any help, links to web sites appreciated. Thanks. Jim When you flash bios, its settings can revert to defaults, you have to go back in and update the settings to reflect your particular setup - processor/mem speeds, graphic card mode, boot device..etc Have you done that ? -- ' gathering moss, andy Flashed Bios with Asus's windows version Update Utility (not AFlash) to BIOS 1011.003 It then said to reboot computer. I rebooted. Saw the Nvidia Ti4200 video card boot screen, but then that's it. Stops cold... There seems to be no way to get into the BIOS to make the settings required. Like I said, it does not get that far into the boot process. Delete does not work (which used too). It just sits there with a black screen and a flashing curser in the top left corner of the computer monitor. All fans are working, and all LEDS are lit on the motherboard. P4B266 P41.8 processor (not overclocked) 1 gig RAM 80gig WD Hard Drive PNY Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 64 MB video card Maybe your Boot Block is still intact ? The flashing cursor sounds a bit promising... The BIOS consists of two parts, the Boot Block and the rest of the chip. The Boot Block is supposed to contain enough basic services, to boot from a floppy. One of the downsides, is the Boot Block may not be able to initialize the screen (I mention this because there is a lot of talk about the recover process being "blind"). First thing to try: 1) Prepare an MSDOS boot disk. Put a copy of AFLASH on it and the BIOS file. If you can boot to the dos prompt, use AFLASH to update the flash chip. This assumes the video is initialized and you can see and read the prompts on the screen. 2) If the Boot Block is intact, it may not be able to init the video. To flash the BIOS, the suggestions in groups.google.com are to prepare an AUTOEXEC.BAT file, with the name of the flash program and a series of command line switches. While this might work for some other flasher programs, the claim is that AFLASH doesn't have the necessary command line switches. http://www.imidz.sk/rainbow/uniflash.txt However, I just downloaded aflash221 from the Asus site, and with a hex editor, I can see some options like: ASUS ACPI BIOSFLASH MEMORY WRITER V2.21%s Copyright (C) 1994-2002, ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. USAGE: AFLASH [Options] [ROMFile] /AUTO ROMFile Automated update BIOS without Boot Block and ESCD /BOOT Update BIOS including Boot Block and ESCD and so on. So, it may be possible to use the /AUTO switch in a single line AUTOEXEC.BAT file, to flash the BIOS. Try executing AFLASH on another computer and try /? as a command line option, to get the other options printed out. (After all, you can only do so much with a hex editor :-) 3) If that doesn't work, you could try Uniflash using the same method. Check the list of supported chipsets and give it a shot anyway, because at this point, there is probably nothing to lose. 4) If the Boot Block is gone (most likely), it is time to buy another flash chip from www.badflash.com or similar. If you do a lot of BIOS flashing on a board, then a BIOS Savior is an excellent investment. See ioss.com.tw for details. Note that the motherboard and original flash have to be in working order, in order to install a BIOS Savior, so you cannot use it to revive a dead board, unless the vendor of the BIOS Savior flashes the EEPROM on the Savior before shipping it to you. If you cannot manage to find a floppy boot disk, you might be able to make one with some files from bootdisk.com . BTW: The comment from "Clock n Roll" makes me wonder whether switching from JumperFree to Jumper Mode or vice versa would make a difference. Stranger things have happened. HTH, Paul Thanks for all the tips Paul. I read also about the "boot block" part of the bios and how it was only able to show video from an ISA video card. Also another read has mentioned that my floppy should be hooked up to a multi media controller card. I guess that means it can either control HD's, CDRoms, and floppy drives. I do have a fresh boot disk with AFLASH and a fresh download of the P4B266 BIOS. Will there be any activity light on the floppy, because I have left it in there for over an hour and nothing. I figured with the flashing cursor on the screen, that there was some life left in it. You should have heard some floppy access and the thing booting, if the boot block was alive. This blasting of BIOS happens so often, and I've never read any accounts of post-mortem examination of the BIOS. I'm very curious as to just what is left inside the flash chip. Why I went with the 1011 Beta? I read someplace that it supposedly enables the board to run 333Mhz DDR's. At least that is what the zip file looks like (*DDR333) I am in Jumperfree mode, so maybe I'll look at the manual and see what settings I will require for my system. Holly cow......ISA video cards, jumper switches.....next thing I know I'll be digging out the old 386SX out of the attic For ~$189 CDN the P4P800 Deluxe-UAY is starting to look good. Jim Well, the BTX mobos and the next generation of hardware will soon be here, so if you have an investment in existing hardware, a motherboard with an AGP 8X slot on it and room for DDR ram might be a good idea. If you like the idea of buying all your hardware over again, wait a couple of months for some of the next generation stuff. For example, here is an article comparing PCI-Express as a replacement for AGP8X slot on the upcoming motherboards. If you already spent $600 on a video card, then your P4P800 purchase will allow you to use it for a while yet. http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.c...id=1087&page=3 Paul |
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Thanks for all the tips Paul. I read also about the "boot block" part of the bios and how it was only able to show video from an ISA video card. Also another read has mentioned that my floppy should be hooked up to a multi media controller card. I guess that means it can either control HD's, CDRoms, and floppy drives. I do have a fresh boot disk with AFLASH and a fresh download of the P4B266 BIOS. Will there be any activity light on the floppy, because I have left it in there for over an hour and nothing. Why I went with the 1011 Beta? I read someplace that it supposedly enables the board to run 333Mhz DDR's. At least that is what the zip file looks like (*DDR333) I am in Jumperfree mode, so maybe I'll look at the manual and see what settings I will require for my system. Holly cow......ISA video cards, jumper switches.....next thing I know I'll be digging out the old 386SX out of the attic For ~$189 CDN the P4P800 Deluxe-UAY is starting to look good. Jim Have a look: Code NameNorthwood SpecificationIntel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Family / Model / SteppingF 2 9 Extended Family / Model0 0 Brand ID9 Technology0.13 µ Supported Instructions SetsMMX, SSE, SSE2 CPU Clock Speed2775.9 MHz Clock multiplierx 21.0 Front Side Bus Frequency132.2 MHz Bus Speed528.8 MHz Mainboard and chipset Motherboard manufacturerASUSTeK Computer INC. Motherboard modelP4B266, REV 2.xx BIOS vendorAward Software, Inc. BIOS revisionASUS P4B266 ACPI BIOS Revision 1010 BIOS release date08/06/2002 AGP Data Transfert Rate4x AGP Side Band Addressingsupported, enabled AGP Aperture Size64 MBytes Memory DRAM TypeDDR-SDRAM DRAM Frequency176.3 MHz Module 0GEIL DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 256 MBytes Module 1GEIL DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 256 MBytes I would flash it back to 1010 with AFlash...no, shouldn´t take hours... |
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"Clock´n Roll" wrote in message k... Thanks for all the tips Paul. I read also about the "boot block" part of the bios and how it was only able to show video from an ISA video card. Also another read has mentioned that my floppy should be hooked up to a multi media controller card. I guess that means it can either control HD's, CDRoms, and floppy drives. I do have a fresh boot disk with AFLASH and a fresh download of the P4B266 BIOS. Will there be any activity light on the floppy, because I have left it in there for over an hour and nothing. Why I went with the 1011 Beta? I read someplace that it supposedly enables the board to run 333Mhz DDR's. At least that is what the zip file looks like (*DDR333) I am in Jumperfree mode, so maybe I'll look at the manual and see what settings I will require for my system. Holly cow......ISA video cards, jumper switches.....next thing I know I'll be digging out the old 386SX out of the attic For ~$189 CDN the P4P800 Deluxe-UAY is starting to look good. Jim Have a look: Code NameNorthwood SpecificationIntel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Family / Model / SteppingF 2 9 Extended Family / Model0 0 Brand ID9 Technology0.13 µ Supported Instructions SetsMMX, SSE, SSE2 CPU Clock Speed2775.9 MHz Clock multiplierx 21.0 Front Side Bus Frequency132.2 MHz Bus Speed528.8 MHz Mainboard and chipset Motherboard manufacturerASUSTeK Computer INC. Motherboard modelP4B266, REV 2.xx BIOS vendorAward Software, Inc. BIOS revisionASUS P4B266 ACPI BIOS Revision 1010 BIOS release date08/06/2002 AGP Data Transfert Rate4x AGP Side Band Addressingsupported, enabled AGP Aperture Size64 MBytes Memory DRAM TypeDDR-SDRAM DRAM Frequency176.3 MHz Module 0GEIL DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 256 MBytes Module 1GEIL DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 256 MBytes I would flash it back to 1010 with AFlash...no, shouldn´t take hours... Thanks for the "hope" cnr, but there is no way to flash it back. The floppy and other drives (including hard drive are dead. And I mean inaccessable. All it boots to is the infamous flashing curser in the top left corner with no other activity. With a floppy or no floppy. It has been a great board over the last few years. My last bit to try is to go to jumpermode and see if that maybe unlocks it. Which brings me to my next question: What do I set them too? P4 1.8Ghz Bus speed 400 Mhz P4B266 motherboard 266Mhz (?) cpu frequency selection to 120Mhz and the multipler to 15.0 X? Jumper settings were not one of my strong points. . . Jim |
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"Jim in Canada" wrote in message news:5NMXb.513235$X%5.408368@pd7tw2no... "Clock´n Roll" wrote in message k... Thanks for all the tips Paul. I read also about the "boot block" part of the bios and how it was only able to show video from an ISA video card. Also another read has mentioned that my floppy should be hooked up to a multi media controller card. I guess that means it can either control HD's, CDRoms, and floppy drives. I do have a fresh boot disk with AFLASH and a fresh download of the P4B266 BIOS. Will there be any activity light on the floppy, because I have left it in there for over an hour and nothing. Why I went with the 1011 Beta? I read someplace that it supposedly enables the board to run 333Mhz DDR's. At least that is what the zip file looks like (*DDR333) I am in Jumperfree mode, so maybe I'll look at the manual and see what settings I will require for my system. Holly cow......ISA video cards, jumper switches.....next thing I know I'll be digging out the old 386SX out of the attic For ~$189 CDN the P4P800 Deluxe-UAY is starting to look good. Jim Have a look: Code NameNorthwood SpecificationIntel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz Family / Model / SteppingF 2 9 Extended Family / Model0 0 Brand ID9 Technology0.13 µ Supported Instructions SetsMMX, SSE, SSE2 CPU Clock Speed2775.9 MHz Clock multiplierx 21.0 Front Side Bus Frequency132.2 MHz Bus Speed528.8 MHz Mainboard and chipset Motherboard manufacturerASUSTeK Computer INC. Motherboard modelP4B266, REV 2.xx BIOS vendorAward Software, Inc. BIOS revisionASUS P4B266 ACPI BIOS Revision 1010 BIOS release date08/06/2002 AGP Data Transfert Rate4x AGP Side Band Addressingsupported, enabled AGP Aperture Size64 MBytes Memory DRAM TypeDDR-SDRAM DRAM Frequency176.3 MHz Module 0GEIL DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 256 MBytes Module 1GEIL DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 256 MBytes I would flash it back to 1010 with AFlash...no, shouldn´t take hours... Thanks for the "hope" cnr, but there is no way to flash it back. The floppy and other drives (including hard drive are dead. And I mean inaccessable. All it boots to is the infamous flashing curser in the top left corner with no other activity. With a floppy or no floppy. It has been a great board over the last few years. My last bit to try is to go to jumpermode and see if that maybe unlocks it. Which brings me to my next question: What do I set them too? P4 1.8Ghz Bus speed 400 Mhz P4B266 motherboard 266Mhz (?) cpu frequency selection to 120Mhz and the multipler to 15.0 X? Jumper settings were not one of my strong points. . . Jim Been reading the P4 1.8 does not go above 100mhz for overclocking very well, so should I do the multiplyer 18.0X and the cpu frequency at 100 Mhz? This seems to ring a bell some place... |
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